Medical cabinet.



JOSIAH SAMUEL WAILES, OF MYSTIO, IOWA.

MEDICAL CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 19, 1908.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Serial No. 433,737.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that 1, J osIAH SAMUEL WAILEs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Mystic, in the county of Appanoose and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Medical Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to medical cabinets, and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide a simple case having a sliding receptacle therein, and carried within the sliding receptacle is a plurality of boxes having doors and numbers positioned upon each box so that said boxes may be brought into coincidence with a door in the outer casing and opened to gain access to the boxes or containers for the medicine.

Another object of my invention is to have physicians install and stock these cabinets and to give treatment to persons over the telephone. v

Another object of the invention is to provide a medicine cabinet in which means will be provided for rendering it almost impossible to make a mistake as to the kind of medicine it is desired to use.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure l is a erspective view of a medicine cabinet mac e in accordance with my invention and showing the door of the outer casing open and the door of one of the boxes or containers opened out through the door of the outer casing. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the outer casing, and showing the arrangement of interior boxes or containers for the medicines. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the outer casing and the inner sliding receptacle. Fig. 4 is a partial longitudinal sectional view of the sliding receptacle.

' Referring to the drawing for a more specific description of my invention, the numeral l designates the outer casing of my cabinet, said casing bein shown as of rectangular cross section an of considerable length, a standard size being 24 inches in length, while the transverse dimensions are six inches by six inches. lt will be obvious that the cabi'- net may be of any suitable size so lon as the sliding receptacle is of a correspon ing di mension. The box or casing l is provided with a front door 2 which may be disposed shown in Fig. 2.

centrally to the casing and provided with 'a lock.

Mounted to slide within the casing 1 is a sliding receptacle 3, said receptacle having a series of partitions 4 therein, and the front portion of said receptacle comprising a series of doors 5 hinged to the bottom of the receptacle, as at 6. The doors 5 are provided with indicating numbers from one to nine, as

1t will be understood, however, that any suitable number of containers may be used, and they may be of any desired size. The sliding receptacle 3 is moved from side to side within the casing 1 by means of a knob 8 which extends through a slot 9 in the casing 1, said knob 8 being connected to the bottom of the sliding receptacle 3. By moving the sliding receptacle from side to side the number of any desired medicine may be brought into coincidence with the door 2, and when one of the doors 5 has been opened the sliding receptacle cannot be moved until said door 5 is closed, thus providing a safeguard against the use of the wrong medicine. The casing 1 is designed to be secured to a wall or other su port at the required height and is suppose to contain a quantity of medicines represented by the figures one to nine, inclusive, or any .suitable number. The person desiring to use the cabinet can select the remedy desired and open the door 2 and slide the receptacle 3 until the required number comes into coincidence with thev door, when the door of the sliding receptacle may be opened and the required remedy obtained.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is zl A medicine cabinet comprising an elongated box or casing provided with a slot in the underside thereof, a sliding receptacle mounted within the casing and provided with a knob extending through said slot to permit the receptacle to be moved within the casing, and a series of medicine receptacles formed in the sliding receptacle, doors for said receptacles, and a door in the outer casing or box.

n testimony whereof l aiiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSIAH SAlVIU EL WAILES.

Witnesses:

R. B. MoMArIoN, JAS. BARKER. 

